{"id":702,"date":"2022-03-20T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2022-03-25T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T23:28:04","slug":"45-off-installaware-x15-with-context-menu-bridge-coming-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"InstallAware X15 with Context Menu Bridge Coming This Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The date is almost here! Get ready for Install<strong>Aware X15<\/strong> with the industry&#8217;s one and only <strong>Context Menu Bridge<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8211; Three Technology Stacks:<\/strong> Save having to learn <strong>COM <\/strong>(IExplorerCommand), <strong>MSIX <\/strong>(sparse packages), and Windows Runtime (<strong>WinRT <\/strong>APIs) &#8211; just to get your right-click extensions working in Windows 11!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8211; New Application Runtime:<\/strong> Tick a single check-box in the Application Runtimes designer (Context Menu Bridge), <strong>paste your existing IContextMenu CLSIDs, and you&#8217;re done!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8211; Context Menu Bridge Plug-In:<\/strong> This new plug-in <strong>wraps any number of IContextMenu COM objects <\/strong>inside its own IExplorerCommand COM object at build time. It also creates a sparse MSIX package you may use to install your newly bridged menus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8211; (Un)Install Sparse MSIX Package Plug-In:<\/strong> This new plug-in then <strong>registers (or removes) the sparse MSIX package<\/strong> produced by the new Context Menu Bridge plug-in above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8211; Nothing Hard-Coded:<\/strong> Use either the built-in application runtime, or go under the hood via the new plug-ins above. Either way, <strong>save yourself hundreds of hours of time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nobody does Windows 11 like Install<em>Aware<\/em> X15!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The date is almost here! Get ready for InstallAware X15 with the industry&#8217;s one and only Context Menu Bridge: &#8211; Three Technology Stacks: Save having to learn COM (IExplorerCommand), MSIX (sparse packages), and Windows Runtime (WinRT APIs) &#8211; just to get your right-click extensions working in Windows 11! &#8211; New Application Runtime: Tick a single &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=702\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;InstallAware X15 with Context Menu Bridge Coming This Friday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}